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Show ' THE GREAT WE1T. Wonden of the Tcllowit.ooe Country. Mr. Thomas Moran, ooe of tbo artUis woo acoompauiod Profer i ay den to Yellowstone Lake, returned Iat eveniog, en route tor the States. He says that the exploring iany have discovered many curioMtit.'S that were not een by the party of hist year. All the I'tieiiomeiia described by Me??r.- Luudl'ord and Tntaihua htive bet-ti een, and the haJf was loc told by them. At Gardner's river, ssventy-nve mdes beyond Bczeman, they visited the hot sprinys, discovered some time before by soma of tbe citizens of Iioze-man. Iioze-man. Mr. JUoran sirs llmj constitute one of tbe most renjsrkal!a curiosities of the world. They are vtry numerous, numer-ous, spreading over a var. extent o! country, in close proximir, to each other, of various temperatures, arid in their deposits present all the beautifully beautiful-ly shaded hues of the rainbow. lie bad a number of photographic views, and soniu outline drawing of hh own, which gave an idea of tho sprinus and tiie scenery in the vicinity. They are highly medicinal, and several iheu-matic iheu-matic patients from Bozeman have built a hut there, with the intention of remaining for the benefit of bathing, until cold weather. There was every evidence, Mr. Moran tys, that a fresh eruption had taken place at tha Mud Volcano, as trees were broken down in all directions direc-tions around ii, and completely bespattered be-spattered with mud. At the lako tbe party had constructed a boat, visited the islands and inlets-, and found many things of great interest. They had also visited the Geyser Basin, and while there witnessed the eruption of one geyser, not described by the party last year, which by actual measurement, , projected water to the hight of 300 feet. A new geyser region has been discovered by the demzons at the hot springs on Gardener's rivcr,some miles up tho stream. It was reported to be very lively in action, but was discovered too late in the day to be visited, and admit ol return to cam p. A party was to visit it in a few days after Mr. Moran left. I Mr. Moran pronounces tho country 1 tho m03t wonderful region on tho continent. con-tinent. All the phenomena which elsewhere is found scattered and distributed dis-tributed over widely separated portions of the gloBe, is hero crowded into a renion which does not exceed eichlv miles in length, What Humbolt traveled 20,000 miles to see, may be seen in a clance. Prof. Hayden and party, we learn from Mr. M., will leave on theirreturn for tho States early in September. llespectfully, IT. Helena Herald. |